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Chapter 1

Ari

Max POV

Oh shoot.

I still don't know how many times I have to see Ari alive again. First, I accidentally broke his neck, and then he...expires. And if Erasers are so yesterday, why was he brought back, and why was he attempting to kill me again?

They are his orders, Max. And, after all, we can't completely destroy such a powerful species, can we?

I groaned loudly.

Of course we can. I found myself thinking sourly.

For those who have annoying little voices in their head, thanks for understanding. Those who don't...deal.

Fang, his dark silhouette now high in a tree, look at me with a quizzical look. His dark wings glowed silver in the moonlight, and he crouched on the branch, like a cat stalking a mouse. Ari, down below him, was the pathetic, annoying mouse. Fang was the big, bad, silent cat.

"Voice - er - Jeb, again," I muttered. Guh! I hated Jeb and his all-knowing self!

You don't hate Fang when he's "all-knowing" to you.

I don't think he's betrayed me, Jeb.

I focused back on the fight. We were in Colorado, just to see our house again. Last time Gazzy and Iggy were there, they said that it was invaded with Erasers. But, from the backyard, it looked perfectly fine. Untouched. In fact, we were thinking of staying. But then good old dog boy came in and ruined the day.

Nudge was weaving in and out of the trees, probably thinking of a way to stop him, but she looked distracted, probably thinking the same things me and everyone else was: Why does Ari hate us again?

You see, Ari helped us escape from the school after they wanted to exterminate us, and I couldn't let him die, so he joined us for a while. Unfortunately, Fang was pretty ticked off, after nearly being killed so many times. He and the boys left for a while, but then they came back when I posted a cry for help on his blog to save us from a castle in Germany. Yippee, he saved the day. Ari, fighting to save us all, expired in my arms, and I later found out he was my brother, Jeb was my father, and Dr. Martinez (now Mom) was my, well, mother. Duh. And now my brother, for the second time, had come back from the dead, and once again, to hurt us. But why right after he helped us?

Iggy, who was suspended in the air just above Ari, was shoving his hands deep into the pockets of his jeans, and pulled out something small and threatening. An explosive great (note sarcasm). At least I know where he hides them on his person, now.

He chucked it at Ari, who was now chasing and snapping at Total the Talking Dog's heels, with Angel screaming and running behind them. The little mini-bomb exploded around his face and he staggered a bit, and quit his chase with the dog (don't tell Total I called him that!).

"Take that, you worthless scrap metal!" Total barked. He lunged at Ari's ankles, but Angel scooped him up and flew up higher, over the tree tops, but I could still here them.

Angel looked at the Scottish Terrier. "That's not a Flyboy, Total! It's Ari!"

Total cocked his head. He gazed at the powerful Eraser, and growled.

"Well, he did seem at least 5 smarter than those fakes,"

In case you have no idea what they meant, Flyboys are what we called robots with a thin layer of skin and fur to resemble an Eraser. Imagine our surprise after we defeated our first one.

Angel flew over to Gasman and tossed Total to him, who so happened to be very upset about Ari being back, and the last thing he looked like he needed was an annoying, talking Scottie, and Angel flew over to me, who was next to the tree Fang was sitting in.

See? Now you get where we're all at.

"Max, what do you think he wants?" she asked me in her scared, but sweet little-girl voice.

"I think I want….him!"

Ari had brushed the fragments of the bomb of himself and pointed in the large oak tree Fang was hiding in. Fang, taking the chance, lunged at Ari. The force of the blow pinned him to the ground.

Ari already had sheer muscle, I have to say. But they must have strengthened him when they brought him back, because he was able to throw Fang off, grab him by the throat and smash him into the wooden bark of the tree in less than 10 seconds. If Ari could have ever done that before he died, it would have taken a lot longer. Fang yelped in surprise and pain, and he thrashed his legs, kicking Ari in the stomach. Usually, Ari would buckle his legs and give Fang a chance to run a bit, because he was just so young and, uh, un-updated. But this time, he didn't budge at all. He just kept ramming Fang's head into the bark of the tree, making a dull thunk whenever bone and bark smacked together.

"No! Stop it!" Nudge was screaming shrilly. She came out of no where and pulled on Ari's neck from behind so she could snap it back. It didn't do much, but Ari let go of Fang. He turned around and smacked Nudge across her face, making her scream and be thrown at another tree. She groaned as she slid down the bark, and then grew unconscious.

I could not believe what he had just done to Nudge. How the heck was he able to push an eleven year-old into a tree, yards away?

"No!" I screamed, tears streaming down my face, "Leave us alone!"

Fang ran to Nudge, but Ari grabbed the sleeve of his jacket and pulled him in front of the Eraser's ugly face. He snapped his hand upside of Fang's face, making him drop like a bird that was shot in a tree. Oh, wait….he kinda was a bird, with that 2 avian in him. Ari stood over his crumpled body and hit him in the face, over and over again.

I kept sobbing, and Gazzy and Angel joining in on our little fest. Iggy was searching for more bombs to use, but I saw his face go paler than usual as he realized he had no more.

Fang, at first, had groaned and tried to fight back with all of his blind fury. But after a few seconds of enduring this pain, he made no reaction. He was just slumped on the ground, not making any movement at all, almost like he was….

"Ari!"

Ari stopped hitting Fang and whirled his head around. We all did the same, and I swore under my breath when I saw who it was.

The Director, her face cold and cruel, came up to him. How did she get here without us knowing, you may ask? Got me.

"Come to play Mommy, you dog?!" I snarled. Okay, we all know what I was going to say, but, jeezum, I have six year-olds on this crew. And this lying cheat had told me she was my mother. Fat chance.

She glared at all of us coldly (I got an extra chilly one), and she faced Ari.

"That's enough. Shoot the rest and we will take over." She commanded in a voice like a sheet of ice.

Ari nodded, and before I could realize what 'shoot' meant, he pulled out a gun and aimed at each of us. I felt a jab in my leg. I looked down at it, and before I realized it was a tranquilizer dart, everything went dark and cold.

How's that for a first chapter? Please review! Constructive criticism okay!